The Sunday Times just covered Kaganof’s new project – a film shot entirely with cell phones: ‘Action!’ says the director for at least the 20th time in as many minutes, prompting the two female leads to start doing their thing at the pool table. As the girls hit the balls, chat and flirt, their movements [...]
There’s another great art / curatorial project coming up from Cape Town-based Ralph Borland, and this one is calling for work for him to bring to a big ole festival in Australia: I am a South African artist looking to document or exhibit your work – artwork, design and technology projects, tools, appliances, activist campaigns, [...]
Been busy all day working on the implicit body full chapter with Nicole (yes, world, that’s a new URL!). Wow, although academic writing is exciting and exhilarating, I sometimes forget how draining and exhausting it can be. Bit by bit…. In other news, MacFormat Magazine has decided to do a li’l back-page feature on me [...]
My friend Amy sent me this great email about how the Jewish conversational style (especially those from, ahem, New York and of, ahem I say again, Eastern European descent) is about engaging through emotional story-telling, interrupting, and changing topics. See, I am listening and I do love you. Check it: Interrupters? Linguist says it’s Jewish [...]
A great number of sculptors rocked up, looking at the new site for the DST building. Thanks to everyone. If you could not make it and want to stay in the loop, just leave me a message on the comments page, and i will get back to you! Tags: art, art and tech, franci cronje, [...]
I found this fantastic plugin for WordPress 2.0: editormonkey. She’s a rich text editor with spell check, etc, that is not that buggy for the new WordPress 2.0. The spell check is a bit of a pain to set up, and I’m having problems to get it to work on the comments form, but other [...]
Well, all the plug-ins (or at least comparable ones) that I want are finally available for WordPress 2.0, so am upgrading right now. Please forgive if "email to friend" is broken for a li’l bit, and lemme know if you encounter any other bugs. The only thing I’m changing on the front page is that [...]
lisa brice @ goodman gallery Just came from the goodman gallery, where Lisa Brice – a South African living between London and Trinidad – exhibits a beautiful solo exhibition. Hauntingly and haltingly ripe, she uses a limited palette of grays, blues and greens to evoke senses of loss and wonder. Check out my new review [...]
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emmarentia lilies So, I have finally joined the flickr craze, and started by uploading a handful of images with "action Jackson" – the new custom-made and fully portable appendage for 360-degree Compressionist scans… Will post the latest finished works (as well as all new documentation, text, etc, on compressionism.net) in the next few days. They’re [...]
SAartsEmerging launches today with a feature on Pretoria-born and bred Donna Kukama. In celebration, we’ve planned a cash bar hootenanny for emerging artists and art appreciators, alike: 9 February, 2006 Berlin Bar in Johannesburg, South Africa 7th street, Melville (across and down from Xai Xai) 18:30ish til whenev Features a site-specific installation by our own [...]
Ah, how I love mutual respect and fondness. at interval featured on DVblog michael szpakowski makes me sound cooler than I actually am by saying: More remarkable work from Nathaniel Stern as he reworks, in the most curious of ways, Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. Interesting that although the working method here seems almost diametrically opposed [...]
To everyone interested in this competition, please visit the site next week. for more info, go to the website: http://www.dst.gov.za/programmes/art%5Fcompetition/art%5Fcompetition.htm Tags: art, franci cronje, south african art, uncategorical
Hereby all artists are invited to submit proposals: The Department of Science and Technology is building new premises which will be in serious need of artworks! The objective of this competition is to acquire innovative, outstanding artwork, that communicates the theme of science and technology, for our new art collection to be on display in [...]
Tags: thando
Tags: thando
Tags: thando
Spent most of the weekend working on a new video piece for the t-minus 2006 festival, an exhibition and DVD produced by Joshua Goldberg and Chris Jordan, New York City. It’s likely to be the first in a small series of "lapses," which play with time and language by compressing popular films into a different [...]
am down in the mother city again, i have given up on hassling and flowing and have to sit my ass down. oh yes before i forget i will become a Joburg later this month, please people bring me a cake and red wine to make me feel welcomed. so to the dudes in Jozi, [...]
According to a Zogby Poll: Americans Support Impeaching Bush for Wiretapping. This poll was conducted by the highly-regarded and non-partisan polling company (Zogby), and interviewed 1,216 U.S. adults from January 9-12. Yes, Conservatives have been citing polls that say Americans feel they want to be listened to, but the ridiculous question asked there was, “should [...]
